This past weekend, PhD candidate Stefan Lund received one of three Student Awards of Excellence at the 2018 Symposium on the Nineteenth Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. The three-day conference took place in Chattanooga, Tennessee, from November 8-10. The top three papers and the top three student papers were honored. Due to the generosity of the Walter and Leona Schmitt Family Foundation Research Fund, the winners of the student awards received a $250 honoraria for delivering their papers at the conference.
Lund received his award for a revised version of his Master's thesis, ""Cowardly and Incendiary Partisans": Soldier Mobs, Loyalty, and the Democratic Press in the Civil War."